Chapter 1

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

[Name: Chen Mobai]

[Age: 18]

[Realm: Qi Refinement Level-5]

[Spiritual Root: Metal 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, Earth 10]

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At the Fifth High School of the Immortal Sect in Danxia City, at the seat by the window in a classroom, a handsome young man took out his cell phone that was as light as jade and opened his personal data interface.

School had just started, so their form teacher wanted to check everyone’s cultivation progress during the holidays. Chen Mobai edited some content that needed to be updated.

Then, he connected to the school website and was about to send his personal interface to the form teacher when he heard a voice in his ear.

“Eh? You actually went into seclusion to cultivate during the holidays and broke through to Qi Refinement Level-5.”

After his deskmate sent his interface to the form teacher, he glanced at Chen Mobai’s screen and saw that Chen Mobai had filled in “Qi Refinement Level-5” in the Realm column. His tone was slightly sour.

Although the content on the personal interface was filled in by the students themselves, the school could easily verify the authenticity of the content through various exams. Basically, no one would fill in the content randomly. After all, if one was caught faking their information, it would be recorded in the files. This would affect one’s graduation or even their role allocation in the war.

In the immortal sect, the punishment for cheating was quite severe.

“I’m different from you. I have a True Spiritual Root. As long as I work hard, I can cultivate much faster than you with your pseudo Spiritual Root.”

There was a hint of smugness in Chen Mobai’s words. Apart from being taken to the temple by his mother to offer incense, he had spent the rest of his time in seclusion at home. With the help of pills, he had finally broken through the bottleneck and advanced to Qi Refinement Level-5.

“It’s so unfair that your Spiritual Root ranks among the True Spiritual Roots with those attributes.”

His deskmate was furious, but there was nothing he could do. That was the rule of the immortal sect.

If a Spiritual Root reached 20 points in a certain attribute, it would be considered a Spiritual Root of that attribute. When Chen Mobai was in his mother’s womb, the heavens hadn’t been paying attention to the distribution of talent. Thus, the distribution was a little balanced, and his Spiritual Root was classified as a pseudo Spiritual Root in all attributes.

However, in reality, the Spiritual Root Attribute points of the person sitting next to Chen Mobai were about the same as Chen Mobai’s.

“Yes, not bad. Many people have improved during the holidays.”

At this point, the form teacher standing on the podium had finished looking at everyone’s interfaces. A rare smile appeared on his usually serious face.

Following this, the teacher praised every student who had made progress.

One of them was Chen Mobai.

The form teacher’s praise caused the two pretty students sitting in front of him to turn around. Chen Mobai couldn’t help but hold his head high and puffed out his chest, looking extremely pleased with himself.

Having reached Qi Refinement Level-5, he was among the top 20 in the class.

He was already in his third year of high school. If he worked hard, he might be able to advance by another level before the university entrance examination.

If he reached Qi Refinement Level-6, he would have no hope for the four top-tier Dao Colleges, but he could still hope to enter the second-tier Dao Colleges. As for the third-tier Dao Colleges, such as the local Danzhu College and the Chixia College, he was almost guaranteed to succeed.

As long as he could enter a Dao College after the college entrance examination, he would not be recruited by the immortal sect to participate in the exploration war for the next ten years.

Perhaps there was hope for him to build his foundation.

“Finally, I would like to commend Song Zheng and Yan Bingxuan. I didn’t expect that in my lifetime, I would be able to produce two students who have reached the later stages of the Qi Refinement Realm.”

Chai Deyun had just become a form teacher six years ago, and this class was considered the first class he had led. Thus, his emotions were at their peak. He put down the tablet in his hand with a sentimental look. Then, his usually serious gaze became gentle. Together with everyone in the classroom, he looked at the boy and girl who had stood up.

These were the two top students in their class and also the top students with the most outstanding Spiritual Root Attributes. Indeed, they had lived up to expectations and had entered Qi Refinement Level-7 before the college entrance examination.

With such results, they would be able to enter second-tier Dao Colleges for sure. Furthermore, they would be able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm within ten years. If they succeeded, they would even be able to achieve the Golden Core Dao Seed in the future. At that point, even within the immortal sect, they would be people who would be heavily nurtured.

Chen Mobai also had a look of envy on his face. Unlike his True Spiritual Root, which bent the rules, Song Zheng and Yang Bingxuan both had genuine True Spiritual Roots. One of them had achieved more than 40 points in a Spiritual Root Attribute, so it would be much easier to cultivate that attribute.

“Alright, that’s all for today’s class.”

When he heard the bell from the highest floor of the school, Chai Deyun gathered the test papers and announced the end of class.

All the students immediately dispersed.

Even Chen Mobai simply took his cell phone and jumped out from the window by his side before rushing to the cultivation room.

Fortunately, he had gone into seclusion during the holidays and his cultivation level had increased by a level, while the Vertical Raising Spell was accelerated by 30 percent. Hence, he was able to arrive at the cultivation room before most people.

He had no time to choose a room. He saw an empty training room with an open door and simply rushed in.

There was a beep.

Chen Mobai swiped the electronic student card in his cell phone and the word “empty” on the electronic screen at the door of the cultivation room instantly disappeared. Then, he slowly closed the door.

“Foo!”

Outside the door, the student who was a step slower cursed and hurriedly rushed to another empty cultivation room.

It was no wonder they were so anxious.

It was because spiritual energy was hard to come by.

After 6,000 years of development by the immortal sect, the resources of Planet Earth were almost depleted. All the spiritual veins and vitality in the 36 Grotto-Heavens and 72 Blessed Lands had been nationalized. Thus, the spiritual energy that was left in the world was at most enough for cultivators to maintain basic breathing exercises.

Furthermore, if a cultivator wanted to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate, they would have to pay Karma Points to the immortal sect.

A monthly payment of 10 Karma Points was required for inferior-grade Rank-1 leyline spiritual energy to be delivered to one’s residence.

Chen Mobai was at Qi Refinement Level-5. Thus, the inferior-grade Rank-1 spiritual energy was useless to him.

If he wanted middle-grade Rank-1 spiritual energy, he would have to pay 20 Karma Points every month.

As for superior-grade Rank-1 spiritual energy, one would have to pay a monthly fee of 40 Karma Points.

To Chen Mobai, the provided amount of middle-grade Rank-1 spiritual energy would only allow him to stabilize his cultivation and barely make progress. If he wanted to improve quickly, it would be best if he used superior-grade Rank-1 spiritual energy.

Of course, if he had Rank-2 or even Rank-3 leyline spiritual energy, that would be even better.

But this was just a thought.

Only the families of Foundation Establishment cultivators or start-ups could apply to the immortal sect to use Rank-2 spiritual veins.

Sensing that the concentration of spiritual energy in the three-square-meter cultivation room had started to rise, Chen Mobai opened the software on his cell phone to test the spiritual energy value.

After almost a minute, the numbers finally stopped changing.

[Spiritual Energy Value: 10]

The grade of the leyline spiritual energy could be measured using the Spiritual Energy Value.

According to the rules of the immortal sect, a Spiritual Energy Value of 1 to 10 meant that the spiritual energy was from a Rank-1 spiritual vein.

If the Spiritual Energy Value was between 10 to 100, the spiritual energy would be from a Rank-2 spiritual vein.

If the Spiritual Energy Value was between 100 to 1,000, the spiritual energy would be from a Rank-3 spiritual vein…

And so on and so forth. It was said that the highest-leveled spiritual vein in the entire immortal sect was the cave where the two Soul Formation Patriarch were. It was a Rank-6 spiritual vein.